Panslavic Party

The Panslavic Party was a reactionary and monarchist political party that existed in the Russian Empire and (illegally) the Soviet Union from 1836 to 1936. The party advocated Russian nationalism, pursuing an aggressive foreign policy and supporting discrimination against ethnic and religious minorities in the empire, especially Jews and Muslim Turkic peoples. The Panslavic faction also supported a state-run economy, giving complete power to the Emperor; aristocrats and army officers alike supported the party. The party would fall out of favor during the regime of Emperor Alexander II of Russia, who was affiliated with the liberal Westernizers, but the regimes of Alexander III of Russia and Nicholas II of Russia supported the Panslavic faction. The party was banned by the Bolsheviks after the 1917 Russian Revolution due to its far-right views.